25 July 2012

Even in the smallest data centers, manually updating, patching, and
configuring servers can be a time-consuming task filled with the chance for
costly errors. You need a way to reduce IT costs no matter what size business
you serve. As your Linux estate grows, it can require more and more IT
personnel to keep up with all that manual work.

Automation is the key to reducing the IT costs associated with server
management. SUSE Manager automates server management and provisioning, allowing
you to perform these tasks faster and more accurately. These improvements in
speed and accuracy raise your IT staff's productivity and reduce server
downtime.

SUSE Manager also helps server administrators identify server
performance issues before they disrupt your business. With SUSE Manager, the
health of each Linux server in your data center can be monitored from a single
console. When a server exceeds predefined performance thresholds you will be
notified, so you can stay ahead of any trouble and limit the impact to your
business.

Plus, SUSE Manager won't drain your IT budget. You will not only reduce
IT costs related to your staff, but also save money on the solution itself.
SUSE Manager delivers the capabilities you need to effectively manage your
Linux systems, but at a more affordable price than proprietary third-party
systems management products.

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Based on the Spacewalk open source project,
SUSE Manager is the best solution for managing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and
related extensions as well as Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It allows you to reduce
the inherent complexity of managing multiple Linux distributions. It also
manages Linux systems across diverse hardware architectures plus virtual and
cloud environments. It gives you seamless systems management with a single
centralized solution.SUSE Manager directs Linux workloads across a
range of hardware from x86 to IBM System z. It works across VMware, Xen, KVM
and Hyper-V. It works on Amazon EC2 and other cloud platforms. And it even
works for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server-based virtual and software appliances.
This expands your flexibility and helps your IT organization realize the
potential of virtual and cloud computing. You can decide the placement of
workloads where they make sense based on performance, availability and cost,
without losing any control.No matter where you deploy Linux, SUSE
Manager's tight integration with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux gives your IT staff the same view of their Linux systems,
whether managing them remotely or locally. This integration lets administrators
reduce their time spent identifying issues and managing their Linux servers.Moreover, SUSE Manager is an easy solution
for your IT staff to deploy and use. SUSE Manager server and SUSE Manager proxy
server are delivered in an appliance. This reduces deployment time and effort.
And SUSE Manager uses familiar Linux logics and terminology, so your Linux
administrators can immediately take advantage of its robust capabilities with
little training. If you are looking for a Linux systems management tool that
can handle Red Hat management as well as SUSE management, SUSE Manager is the
right choice.

You want a smart way to tackle the challenges
of maintaining and demonstrating compliance for all your Linux workloads. With
SUSE Manager you get it.Using SUSE Manager ensures that your Linux
workloads conform to security guidelines. SUSE Manager provides the ability to
audit software patch status, automatically confirming that your servers have
the latest security updates. If certain servers require a security update you
can automatically deploy them across the necessary systems without touching
each server.

Your IT organization can make sure that only
authorized users can access your servers. You can apply SUSE Manager's
role-based access controls to ensure administrators have the desired level of
authority to manage each system. Through SUSE Manager, all changes to
established server configurations can be tracked and the users easily
identified.